Enabling Acts

🏛 Rules meant to constrain authority don't create accountability—they destroy it, creating "accountability sinks." — Hamilton-Hart New Enabling Acts is out — 7 papers on state capacity, critical minerals, immigration, and housing. 🧵 www.enablingacts.org/p/june-10-us...

🏛 The government built two of the world's best information platforms but is now gutting them. Weiss 🏡 Massachusetts is forcing towns to zone for apartments near transit—and surviving legal challenges. Holmes

🏛 Rules meant to constrain authority don't create accountability—they destroy it, creating "accountability sinks." — Hamilton-Hart New Enabling Acts is out — 7 papers on state capacity, critical minerals, immigration, and housing. 🧵 www.enablingacts.org/p/june-10-us...

American property law used to favor building. Since the 1970s, it shifted to protect incumbents who don't build. @rickhills.bsky.social @profschleich.bsky.social New Enabling Acts: 13 papers on housing, energy, and state capacity. www.enablingacts.org/p/may-20-fif...

🏡 NIMBY opposition and local institutions drive insufficient permitting. 🏡 People closest to new housing fight it hardest — 70% wanted housing types excluded in Arlington. 💡 Unused property rights need an expiration date.

American property law used to favor building. Since the 1970s, it shifted to protect incumbents who don't build. @rickhills.bsky.social @profschleich.bsky.social New Enabling Acts: 13 papers on housing, energy, and state capacity. www.enablingacts.org/p/may-20-fif...

🏛 Fifteen forces are driving a decades-long decline in American state capacity — it's not a Trump or Republican phenomenon. @ganeshsitaraman.bsky.social 🏡 Corporate ownership bans alone won't fix housing affordability.